$S^\prime_4$ Quark Flavour Model in the Vicinity of the Fixed Point $\tau = i\infty$
Abstract
We study in the bottom-up framework the possibility to generate the quark mass hierarchies without fine-tuning, the quark mixing and CP-violation (CPV) in a flavour model with modular symmetry having minimal number of parameters. The model is considered in the vicinity of the fixed point , , being the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the modulus , which allows to explain the hierarchies of the quark masses. The ten quark observables are described by nine real parameters. The CP-symmetry is broken explicitly since, as is well known, reproducing the observed CPV in the quark sector in the case of spontaneous breaking of CP-symmetry by is highly problematic in the class of minimal modular quark flavour models (explaining the quark mass hierarchies without fine-tuning) of the type we consider. We perform a statistical analysis of the model and show that it is phenomenologically viable and consistent, in particular, with the ``inclusive'' decay data on the and elements of the CKM matrix and, in the case of a very high scale of supersymmetry breaking, with the current ``average'' experimental values of and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.04529,
title = {$S^\prime_4$ Quark Flavour Model in the Vicinity of the Fixed Point $\tau = i\infty$},
author = {S. T. Petcov and M. Tanimoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04529},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
26 pages, no figure